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Popsy In Ballet My Way
ISBN: 9780984874903 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this children's book, a colorful character by the name of Popsy teaches the basics of ballet through fun stories that all kids can relate to. Learn to arabesque and pirouette while wishing on a star or twirling like a princess. Also includes pronunciation of french words Every aspiring little dancer's must have
In this children's book, a colorful character by the name of Popsy teaches the basics of ballet through fun stories that all kids can relate to. Learn...
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60,65 |
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No Daughter of Mine is Going to Be a Dancer!: Dancing for Agnes de Mille and the Giants of Dance in the 40s
ISBN: 9781470086183 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her tale of a dancer's life in 1940s America, Underwood reveals both the rapture she felt in dancing and her refreshingly spunky approach to a career. Over the decade, this young woman-experiencing a wide range of performing styles and training techniques-matured and developed as an artist and a person. Her reminiscences, written in the vivid prose style she cultivated in her mature years as a dance critic in Burlington, Vermont (where for decades she also performed, choreographed, and ran a company), she provides an illuminating view of theater and dance during the war and the immediate...
In her tale of a dancer's life in 1940s America, Underwood reveals both the rapture she felt in dancing and her refreshingly spunky approach to a care...
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61,50 |
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My Reminiscences, Volume 2.
ISBN: 9781906830496 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prince Serge Wolkonsky (1860 - 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker, one of the first Russian proponents of eurhythmics, pupil and friend of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and creator of an original system of actor's training that included both expressive gesture and expressive speech.In 1899 Wolkonsky became Director of the Imperial Theatres, the post for which he is most remembered. Although he held the position only until 1902, he achieved a great deal; Serge Diaghilev was his immediate assistant, and Wolkonsky entrusted him with the publication of the Annual of the Imperial Theatres...
Prince Serge Wolkonsky (1860 - 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker, one of the first Russian proponents of eurhythmics, pupil and frien...
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107,90 |
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Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies
ISBN: 9780415639699 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance art, photography, silent film, dance, personal narrative and theatre, using such diverse perspectives and methods as queer theory, gender, feminist, and masculinity studies, dance studies, as well as providing first publication of creative writings by award-winning poets and playwrights. This book was...
This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cu...
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220,35 |
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Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections
ISBN: 9780786473915 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Chaucer to Fitzgerald, writers have used dancing as a vital, if subtle, element in plot and character development. The ballroom, an important element of society in real life, was a backdrop to grand passions or pivotal encounters--ideal ground for commentary on the social milieu.
From Chaucer to Fitzgerald, writers have used dancing as a vital, if subtle, element in plot and character development. The ballroom, an important ele...
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221,82 |
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The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels: The Darkness Beyond the Stage-Lit Dream
ISBN: 9783034304177 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is variously portrayed, how the word dance is used metaphorically to convey actual or imagined movement, and how dance is written in a novelistic form. The author employs a wide range of theoretical approaches including postcolonial studies, theories concerned with class, gender, metaphor and dance and, in particular, Jung s concept of the shadow and theories concerned with vision. Through these variegated approaches, the study critiques the common...
This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is vari...
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501,89 |
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No! Your Other Left Foot: Ballroom Dancing My Way Through My 60s
ISBN: 9780980116519 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,66 |
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Carmen, a Gypsy Geography
ISBN: 9780819573537 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipher for the unfettered female artist. Dance historian and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum shows us Carmen as embodied historical archive, a figure through which we come to understand the promises and dangers of nomadic, transnational identity, and the immanence of performance as an expanded historical methodology. Bennahum traces the genealogy of the female Gypsy presence in her iconic operatic role from her genesis in the ancient Mediterranean world, her emergence as flamenco artist in the architectural spaces of Islamic Spain, her persistent...
The figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipher for the unfettered female artist. Dance historian and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum shows us Ca...
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164,07 |
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Become a Man of Confi-Dance: Dance Your Way to Self-Esteem, Happiness, Romance and Adventure
ISBN: 9781477140307 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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Become A Man of Confi-Dance: Dance your way to self-esteem, happiness, romance and adventure
ISBN: 9781477140314 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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Move Like a Champion: The Power of Understanding How Your Body Works
ISBN: 9780615455471 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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383,67 |
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Burlesque: A Collection of Comedy Blackouts
ISBN: 9781593932213 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Typically, comedy skits performed on the burlesque stage were handed down from one generation to the next. Comics, straight men, and talking women who performed in these scenes usually learned them from others by word of mouth. The material was frequently changed to best fit the local theatre, the audience, or even the situation. Burlesque: A Collection Of Comedy Blackouts helps us to remember just some of these forgotten routines.
Whatever you want to call them; skits, scenes, routines, bits, or blackouts - if you like comedy from legendary burlesque, this is the book for you! Typically, comedy skits performed on the burlesque stage were handed down from one generation to the next. Comics, straight men, and talking women who...
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115,61 |
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The Belly Dance Reader
ISBN: 9780615735597 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Belly Dance Reader is an anthology of essays from many of the leaders in our Middle Eastern music and dance community. The contributors range from PhD scholars to hobbyists. This book is illustrated with hundreds of photos and artwork from current to vintage, including various sub-styles of the dance, gathered from around the world. Subjects covered include: An introduction, dancing at various ages and stages, history, costuming and appearance, regional and sub styles of the dance, theory and technique, as well as valuable resources such as Arabic scales and rhythms, glossary, maps and...
The Belly Dance Reader is an anthology of essays from many of the leaders in our Middle Eastern music and dance community. The contributors range from...
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121,35 |
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The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together
ISBN: 9781416576518 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders are team-builders who can inspire great group efforts. Tharp uses her decades of experience to explain why teamwork is a superior way of working for some of us and inevitable for almost all of us. .
- The essential lessons of group effort: Tharp takes readers through the most common varieties of collaborations, including working with a partner, with institutions and middlemen, outside your expertise, in a virtual partnership, with a friend,... - An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders a...
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65,51 |
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Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theater: The Aesthetics of Repetition and Transformation
ISBN: 9780820467054 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book embarks on an interdisciplinary study of dance theater, one that provides a deeper insight into contemporary performing arts. Ciane Fernandes combines Laban movement analysis and the writings of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault to investigate repetition in the works and creative process of Pina Bausch (b.1940), who is considered to be one of the most important choreographers of the twentieth century. This book examines repetition in Bausch's pieces as both method and subject, exploring its power in the metamorphosis of meaning. Repetition is used to subvert its own process of...
This book embarks on an interdisciplinary study of dance theater, one that provides a deeper insight into contemporary performing arts. Ciane Fernande...
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242,97 |
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Joseph Cornell: Opening the Box
ISBN: 9783039110582 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In spite of the widespread fascination with the life and work of American artist Joseph Cornell in both the academy and the gallery, studies of Cornell to date have been circumscribed by a range of critical cliches about the artist being a childlike dreamer, hermetically sealed off from the world, which has prevented his work from being fully understood in all of its complexity and diversity. This book contains more than 50 illustrations of the artist s work many never before reproduced and provides 13 ground-breaking new essays on the artist s films, dossiers, pill-boxes, magazine work,...
In spite of the widespread fascination with the life and work of American artist Joseph Cornell in both the academy and the gallery, studies of Cornel...
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319,31 |
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Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity
ISBN: 9780786473700 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancer/scholars from around the world have contributed essays on belly dance to this book. They all carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice.
The essays explore the differences between the solo improvisational forms of North Africa and the Middle East, often referred to as raqs sharki, which are part of family celebrations, and the numerous globalised versions of this dance form, belly dance, derived from the movement vocabulary of North Africa and the Middle East but with a variety of... Dancer/scholars from around the world have contributed essays on belly dance to this book. They all carefully consider the transformation of an improv...
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167,87 |
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Dance Mom Survival Guide: Growing a Great Dancer Without Losing Your Mind
ISBN: 9781938493072 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two dance moms. One crazy dance world. A humorous and helpful guidebook for parents of dancers, written by two dance moms who have not only "been there," but "are there " Lott and Martin talked to dance moms across the country, dance professors, a psychologist, and instructors, to bring the stage lights directly on the difficulties and joys of raising a dancer and helping them be successful. Is it anything like reality TV? -the role of a dance mom -the healthy dancer -the leap from dancer to team or company dancer -time and financial investment -improving communication -dance manners -camps,...
Two dance moms. One crazy dance world. A humorous and helpful guidebook for parents of dancers, written by two dance moms who have not only "been ther...
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52,40 |
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The Man Who Made the Jailhouse Rock: Alex Romero, Hollywood Choreographer
ISBN: 9780786475940 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known for his inventive style and creative use of props, Alex Romero was instrumental in bringing rock and roll to the screen. This biography includes first-person accounts of his collaborations with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and others.
Known for his inventive style and creative use of props, Alex Romero was instrumental in bringing rock and roll to the screen. This biography includes...
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167,87 |
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Performing Arts and Therapeutic Implications
ISBN: 9780415710114 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting an alternative perspective, this book proposes that performing arts forge an emotional bond between the performer and the audience, making the act of performance a therapeutic and restorative experience, and not merely recreational. Studying the life-experiences of six artists, and their unique engagement with three art forms music, drama and dance the book highlights the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual effects of performing arts both on the performers and the audience. More importantly, it takes the current understanding of the therapeutic role of arts beyond a... Presenting an alternative perspective, this book proposes that performing arts forge an emotional bond between the performer and the audience, maki... |
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661,20 |